Aman Gottumukkala

I'm joining @SpaceX and @xai to build the best coding AI. For the last couple years I founded the most widely used coding agent for Android, scaling it to millions in revenue with a team of 3. I've watched model capabilities compound at a staggering rate and we're clearly on the brink of recursive superintelligence. This is the most important problem to solve in history and requires an immense amount of resources to realize. xAI is the place to build the future. Frontier compute, extraordinary talent, and a strong hold on physical intelligence and space. If you want to focus on executing towards the most important problems of our time, DM me. We're in challenger mode and we are building the winning team.

Wave after wave: In just the last few days, founders and founding engineers from incredible startups have joined @xai The talent density is insane - and getting stronger every week If you've gone 0→1 before and want your next moonshot, join forces with @milichab @JasonBud @dchaplot @AmanGotchu @wwzeng1 and the rest of us who embrace the startup DNA DMs open. Come make history 🔥

GPT-5.3-Codex-Spark is now out in Firebender!! Optimized for ultra-fast edits and iteration, in our internal tests it performs really well on in-line changes and speeding up the design process. As per OpenAI, Spark is designed to output more than 1000 tokens per second. Check it out on Firebender now!!

Claude Opus 4.6 is officially the best model for Android engineering! Try it out in Firebender now 🚀

@csinco They're not build for Android though :(

Agent managers emergence in just 6 months: Air Antigravity Codex app Codex Monitor Commander Conductor Cursor 2.0 Intent Opencode Desktop Vibe Kanban VS Code + Copilot I expect this list to double next quarter. 😵‍💫

Introducing Kotlin-bench V2, the first benchmark that evaluates agentic coding models for Android and Kotlin. 🚀 We took the SWEBench approach and applied it to our catered dataset of real-world Android & Kotlin issues. The results show: - Claude Opus 4.5 is the most intelligent model for Android development. - Gemini 3 Flash delivers the best cost-to-intelligence ratio by far, with slightly lower performance than Claude Opus 4.5 at approximately 10x lower cost View all the results on our blog and github firebender.com/blog/kotlin-be… github.com/firebenders/Ko…

Just use Firebender! Best AI assistant for Android dev and already used by the Android teams at Square, Zillow, DoorDash, Instacart, OpenAI, Tinder and more

Excited to announce our partnership with @Underdog. Working with their engineering team has been a blast, and together we pioneered custom coding agents, subagents, and commands. Read more about their story at firebender.com/blog/case-stud…

Firebender will use your phone to test its code directly without engineer intervention. You can see what the agent did via screen recording or events list

GPT-5.1 and GPT-5.1 Codex are now available in Firebender! These new models feel faster, overthink less, and are more direct when solving tasks. Try it out today and let us know what you think!

Firebender now QAs your Android app for you 🚀 Here it’s running through the login flow and finding all the edge cases, even testing rotation to make sure the UI holds up. These kinds of feedback loops make AI significantly more effective for mobile development. Try it out at firebender.com

@rudrank Have you tried Alex Codes Sidebar? alexcodes.app/docs

For once, I will forget Cursor/CC/Codex does not exist and use Xcode AI

@yaken0010 Try out firebender.com! It’s the cursor experience in Android Studio and currently the best AI assistant for Android developers. Check out our reviews to see for yourself plugins.jetbrains.com/plugin/25224-f…

android studioでプロジェクト設定し、cursor(gpt-5-high)でvide cordingした感じ、肌感はだいぶ良い。android studioはコンパイラとして使う感じになるが、生産性は良さそう。androi studioでもgeminiを用いて似たことはできるが、cursorと比べるとまだモヤる

firebender.com offers a full IDE integration with the latest models! We’ve focused all of our effort into making a strong coding agent that’s integrated seamlessly into IntelliJ and all Jetbrains IDEs. Happy to give a free 30 day trial for you and your entire team if you’re interested :)

Do this... GPT5 is really good and @AmpCode supports it well. I'm also so happy that with the latest Amp, IntelliJ* terminal is being well behaved. Now, if we can just get full IDE integration (showing diffs) I would be set. Using GPT5 mode is very cost effective so far.

We're thrilled to share Modal Notebooks: a new, powerful cloud-hosted GPU notebook. It has modern real-time collaborative editing and is backed by our AI infrastructure — swap GPUs in seconds. Modal Notebooks are generally available, and you can start using them now. 🧵

My favorite part of Firebender background agents is the UX. Each agent lives in its own tab with its own git worktree, like Chrome for coding. Switching between agents feels light and intuitive. The tab title even updates with an icon so I can instantly see whether an agent is still working or ready for review. When I’m done, I just merge, close the tab, and move on. This is by far the best multi-agent UX I’ve ever used, and I'm excited to bring it to the JetBrains ecosystem. They deserve some love too <3

@JorgeCastilloPr Biggest revolution so far 🫡

The Android dev history can be split in two phases: 1.Before Kotlin & Compose 2.After Kotlin & Compose The biggest revolution Android dev has ever seen.

If you're sleeping on Firebender, please tell me why. We are unquestionably the best..

Android devs! This is how 3 people beat Cursor, Windsurf, Devin, and everyone else. My cofounder shares how we built the best AI coding assistant for Android and landed contracts with Zillow, OpenAI, Tinder, Instacart, Toast + more. 🎙️👉 youtube.com/watch?v=VdrVXq…